Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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The only certainty is death.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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You must render: never report.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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